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PRiSM improves few-shot adaptation for vision-language models

Researchers have introduced PRiSM, a novel class-prototype regularization technique designed to improve the performance of few-shot adaptation methods for vision-language models (VLMs). Existing benchmarks for these methods often rely on unrealistic assumptions about data balance, leading to significant performance drops when these assumptions are violated. PRiSM addresses this by optimizing a multi-term loss that enhances inter-class distances and promotes feature alignment, acting as a plug-and-play module for existing baselines. The method employs an efficient block Majorize-Minimize optimizer, leveraging the Gershgorin circle theorem to compute Lipschitz constants for improved optimization. AI

IMPACT Enhances few-shot learning capabilities for vision-language models, potentially improving their adaptability to new tasks with limited data.

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PRiSM improves few-shot adaptation for vision-language models

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    PRiSM: Prototype Regularization for Few-Shot VLMs

    Training-free few-shot adaptation methods have gained significant attention recently in the context of Vision-language Models (VLMs). Yet, current benchmarks rely on strong assumptions about the statistics of the adaptation data, e.g., class balance. We question these simplifying…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Ghassen Baklouti, Omprakash Chakraborty, Jose Dolz, Ismail Ben Ayed ·

    PRiSM: Prototype Regularization for Few-Shot VLMs

    arXiv:2607.17820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free few-shot adaptation methods have gained significant attention recently in the context of Vision-language Models (VLMs). Yet, current benchmarks rely on strong assumptions about the statistics of the adaptation data, e.…